Research Catalog

Title

Theatre as witness : three testimonial plays from South Africa : in collaboration with and based on the lives of the original performers / by Yael Farber ; foreword by Desmond Tutu ; introduction by Amanda Stuart Fisher ; interview between Amanda Stuart Fisher and Yael Farber.

Author

Farber, Yaël

Publication

London : Oberon Books, 2008.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Tutu, Desmond
• Fisher, Amanda Stuart

Description

238 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Yael Farber's trilogy of plays bears powerful testimony to the personal truths of those who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in South Africa. Woman in Waiting tells of Thembi Mtshali's separation from her mother as a child, only to continue this legacy of waiting when forced to leave her own baby to mind other people's children in the white suburbs. Amajuba is a moving tapestry of different personal perspectives on growing up under Apartheid. He Left Quietly is the harrowing experience of Duma Kumalo, one of the wrongly accused Sharpeville Six, on South Africa's Death Row; preparations made for his death and ultimate reprieve."--Jacket.

Subject

• Mtshali-Jones, Thembi > Drama
• Kumalo, Duma, -2006 > Drama
• Chokwe, Tshallo > Drama
• 1961-1994
• Apartheid > South Africa > Drama
• Political plays, South African (English)
• South Africa > Social conditions > 1961-1994 > Drama
• South Africa > History > 1961-1994 > Drama

Genre/Form

• Interviews
• Plays – England – 2008.
• Drama
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A woman in waiting / with Thembi Mtshali-Jones -- Amajuba : like doves we rise / with Tshallo Chokwe, Roelf Matlala, Bongeka Mpongwana, Philip 'Tipo' Tindisa and Jabulile Tshabalala -- He left quietly / with Duma Kumalo.

ISBN

9781840028201 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008411412

OCLC

191891074

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library